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Chapter 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8767-7.ch019
ABSTRACT
The creditability of an e-Learning system depends on its content, services and presentation of the material
to the learners. Besides providing material on demand, an e-Learning system also manages knowledge
for future use. It is observed that the learning material available on different locations may be reused
in a proper way. The work presented here discusses generic design of an e-Learning system with vari-
ous reusable learning material repositories. The architecture described here uses light weight mobile
agents in order to access these repositories by taking help of fuzzy user profile. With notion of the fuzzy
user profile, the system knows more about users’ need and can present customized content to the users.
Besides the architecture of the e-Learning system, the chapter also discusses the necessary concepts
about the fuzzy logic and agent based systems, in depth literature survey, structure of the user profile,
fuzzy membership function and design of the light weight mobile agent with necessary implementation
details. At the end, the chapter concludes with the applications, advantages and future scope of the
research work possible in the domain.
INTRODUCTION
Advances of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) such as internet and the Web have ac-
celerated scope and usability of the system to a high extent. It can be stated that majority of the modern
information systems are distributed systems. Web enable e-Learning system is also an example of such
distributed system. Primary goal of any e-Learning system is to provide learning material and enable
Application of Fuzzy
User’s Profile for Mining
Reusable E-Learning
Repositories on Web through
Lightweight Mobile Agent
Priti Srinivas Sajja
Sardar Patel University, India